>>3539642>Hows the software provided with scanner?Silverfast is the best software available for modern scanners when it comes to inverting negatives. Not a high achievement since most scanning software is pretty bad in terms of UI and bugs, but still.
There's a bit of learning curve but not much.
The way I use it is, choose the film type (negative or transparency), and for negative, pick the correct emulsion from the ready profiles. Once you do the prescan, check the Colour Cast Removal option, it gives you a much better starting point in 99% of the cases by removing the strong casts. The only times I might have it off, is if there's a strong colour cast that I *want* in the picture for whatever reason, like a warm golden hour or cool blue hour.
Then, to fine tune colour, get the picker, choose neutral greys, then click at an area that's supposed to be roughly grey. Does it look better? If not, reset and pick another spot, repeat until you're happy. For further tuning, go at the histogram and do further corrections. For instance, say you have a blue cast in the shadows. Go to the blue channel and drag the shadows pointer to the right, cancelling out some blue. Same for other colours. You have to think of complementary colours, for instance if you have magenta cast, you need to add some green, if you have a cyan cast, add some red, and yellow add some blue.
Some options are a total time waste, like the software dust removal, or multi pass (for negatives), and they double scanning time with barely any improvement if at all.
Also some options, their effects are not visible in the scan preview. For instance the unsharp mask. You have to do a couple different scans with different settings (strength of the effect), see which one you prefer at 100% magnification of the full scan, and then use that setting for all subsequent scans.
Also, if you need strong exposure corrections, it's better to do them in the scanning software, cause iit uses the scanner raw data.
